Tell Me About Yourself - A Good Answer to This Interview Question

Hello everyone, Don Georgevich, listen with the tools for job

interview

s and today I will

tell

you how to respond,

tell

me about

yourself

in the quick and easy way to do it in three simple steps. I mean, most people make

this

question

much harder than it is. If you want to know how to

answer

, tell me about

yourself

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once and for all. everything for you and you will have a simple and easy framework that you can use and apply to your experience and you will be able to go to a job

interview

and tell them about yourself easily and effortlessly, so the first thing to do is three steps: where to start? do you say where to end?

So the key to

answer

ing this question depends on where you are in your career, so you could be fresh out of college or you could have been working for 10 or 20 years. Your response to telling me about yourself depends. About that, if you're just out of college and let's say you're going to college to study accounting, you could say you know that during high school I realized that I had enjoyed accounting 1 and accounting 2 and I found it fascinating that the numbers formed a It made a lot of sense to me and I really enjoyed creating models. I decided that's what I wanted to do, so I went to college to pursue a career in accounting and while I was there I was active in a few different financial clubs and broadened my accounting experience and had a couple of internships at, you know, here and there, you know, name those companies and now I'm looking to get an accounting position and a big accounting firm and hopefully within the next three to five years I'll be looking for my certified public accountant, that's it. that's done as well as that big 30 seconds that's all you need to do to respond tell me about yourself that's all the employer wants to hear and you can do it in 20 or 30 seconds now here's the trick here's the trick you need to have two versions of your answer, so I gave you the short version.

Now you'll want to have a long version. I would encourage you to use the long version first and the long version can be, say, two minutes long, that's still going to be too long to give an interview, but create a two minute version, condense that long version until maybe be 45 seconds to a minute and the long version will still be the same as the short version, so to speak. It'll just be a little bit longer, you'll still talk about how you got started in accounting, what you liked about it, what it meant to you, then you'll talk about your accounting years in college and maybe just a little bit more. details about what you did, maybe some of the clubs you were active in, then you'll go into a little more detail about the internships you had and what you did, what you liked about them and then you'll finish it.

To the final point, you know, hopefully in the next three to five years, I would like to be employed by a large accounting firm and do small business accounting and hopefully achieve my CPA so that you have a long version in a short version. Here's why you have a long version and a short version. Say, for example, you go to the job interview and you sit down with the hiring manager and he says, Okay, Bob, tell me about yourself, so when he says it like that, you'll have maybe 45 minutes. for the interview, you can probably give the hiring manager the long version you know, 45 seconds to a minute, tell the whole story after the interview with the hiring manager, the hiring manager will probably introduce you to other people who can Interview him now.

You might only have 15 minutes and they'll say hey, Bob wants you to meet the Director of Human Resources, why don't you sit down with her for about 15 minutes and she'll say okay, Bob, tell me about yourself. she the long version that's where you give her the compressed short version which takes 15 seconds almost like an elevator speech I mean you have to know when to give her the long shot and when to give her the short one because if you don't have two different versions, you'll end up giving everyone the cold shoulder. long version, it'll happen there, they'll get bored or I'll see people all the time, they'll interrupt you and say, hey, that's cool.

Bob, we have to move on, we don't have time to listen to your life story, so you have it pretty simple, so if you're just out of college, you create a starting point that you want to start and you know that maybe it's in secondary school. for you or maybe that was early in your career or maybe your starting point is college maybe you went to college for something and you changed your major so you create your starting point there that's really the key, you don't have than to start in high school you just have to decide what your starting point is and that's one of the problems with all the other videos that tell you well, you should start in high school, you should start in college, you should talk about everyone the jobs you've had.

No, that's all rubbish, it's someone else putting pressure on you and imposing their model on you that doesn't fit you because you are a unique individual, you need to create a story around yourself that fits you, so decide where you want to start and decide that. you want to talk and then decide where you want to end your story and then create two versions, create the long one first and then create the short one and that's how you got it out so here's a little tip so that when you close your answer you know how I spoke in the accounting example where I am looking to work at a large accounting firm and earn my CPA within the next three to five years, you want to finish that in a way that is aligned with the position, so if you are interviewing for any type accounting position, they'll obviously want you to get your CPA someday, so it's

good

to include that kind of information in your answer, so it just rounds out your answer and wraps it up in a nice way. professional way that shows you're aligned with the goals of that organization, here's how you answer, tell me about yourself when you're fresh out of college, but what about if you've been working for 20 or 30 years?

Well, you still have to decide when your story starts and then you have to decide what you're going to say and then you have to create that ending point like I talked about, so let's take it as an example, if someone asked me, tell me about yourself, I would start and say okay. I went to college to study computer technology after graduating from college. I ended up working in the IT industry, where I helped small businesses by implementing new computer systems for them. After working in IT for a while I ended up graduating as a project manager where I worked and hired many different engineers for various projects and after 20 years in the field I retired from IT and moved on to creating training programs digital that help job seekers interview and prepare for interviews and today I work with and teach employers. how to properly interview candidates for a job so they find the right alignment in your company, that's it, that's the real thing, tell me about yourself for Don Georgevich, now that's the short version, if you ask me the long version If you notice, I'm going to cover all the same points, but I'm going to expand on them, so I'd say you know.

I went to college to study computer technology after graduating from college. I worked for NASA in Cleveland, Ohio, for about five years, where I evaluated different technologies and brought many different technology providers to the NASA lab to show off their technology so other engineers could see what was new and what was best. . After five years at NASA, I moved on and worked at a small IT company in Cleveland, Ohio, where I learned a lot of Microsoft technologies and learned how to implement those solutions in small manufacturing businesses in the Cleveland area and after doing That for a while, I moved up to a project manager position where I managed other engineers and then graduated to a Level where I started hiring other engineers for various projects and after doing that for about 20 years, I went on to start my own business, where I wrote books and then taught job seekers how to interview for jobs.

I also created books on how to write. resumes, cover letters and many different training programs have created a huge YouTube channel with a large following and today I have gone from training job seekers and not interviewing for jobs to training employers how to interview properly to job candidates, so there you have it, that's the long version of Tell Me About You for Donn Georgia Fitch and you can see that the short version just captures the same points that I made in the long version, but the long version just it decompresses my story a little more and gives you a better idea now it depends, sometimes I can give the short version depending on how much time I have or I can give the long version, I mean that's it and how you answer the question.

The question really depends on you and what you feel. I mean, right? I mean, there are other videos out there, so be careful when you watch them all and try not to force your life story into someone else's model. Your answer must come from you. heart and what you feel, don't feel like you need to include every achievement you've ever had in history because that's not what employers ask, they say, tell me about yourself, they don't say, they don't ask. tell me your greatest achievements and every job you've had, they want to see that you are authentic, that you are genuine now if they want to know more about you and they will just ask you.

They're going to be like you know, so Don, can you tell me a little bit more about your time at NASA or can you tell me a little bit more about when you were a coach at Microsoft? They could choose parts of your story that they want. to find out more, so don't feel like you need to tell them the whole story the first time, just touch on all those elements and create a little story so that your short version is about 10 or 15 seconds and your long version maybe. 45 to 60 seconds max and that's all you have to do, that's all you have to do now.

I hate to break it to you, but that's all I have for you and they will ask you all their questions and your interview, although then Tell me about yourself, that is usually one of the first questions they ask you, but they will ask you other questions and from there I have the perfect thing for you. Head over to jobinterviewtools.com/top10 and download this guy, this is the top ten. questions it's all there like tell me about yourself do you know why you want to work here what are your greatest strengths what are your weaknesses is why should we hire you I cover all those questions in this guide and I do it from the From my point of view, I tell you what what you can say, what you should say and what you should not say because both are equally important and I also give you several sample answers for all those questions, so download this type like I said.

I have about 20-30 pages here, it's free, you can receive it as a gift just for sharing some time with me while I teach you how to answer this question the right way, but download this guide, it will just help you prepare for everything. the different angles that the interviewers will approach you from because if this is your first interview they will ask you all kinds of different questions and that will drive you crazy and you will probably feel overwhelmed in the interview. but this little book here and read it, you know, for now twenty and a half minutes, it will help you feel much more comfortable in your next interview so that you don't feel overwhelmed by all their questions.

It will give you an idea of ​​what to expect in the interview now, obviously they will ask you more than ten questions and for that I have other programs, if you are interested in them, they will cover hundreds of different questions, but start here first. and practice your answer to tell me about yourself and feel comfortable answering that question, even record yourself in front of a camera, you know, like we are now and then go back and observe yourself and see how you sound and if you're happy. with it, but if you're happy with the way you sound, maybe show that video to someone else in, hey, you know what you think of this?

Does that sound

good

or in my minute would you mind leaving something out and just getting other comments and that should? It will help you feel much more comfortable giving that answer, but you should never feel uncomfortable talking about yourself. I mean, it's just a simple question, tell me about yourself, give them the short and thin version and that should give them a good sense of who you are, what you're looking for and where you want to be and so on, those are just the basics for that question, so that's all I have for you my friend today and I sincerely wish you the best of luck in your next interview and if you like this channel you like this video you will like what we are doing here please subscribe to my channel like this video share it with a friend and I will see you in the next video take care, bye